U3A Basic Spanish

Find the missing verbs: Insert the missing verbs in the correct tense and conjugation. You choose whether to use the informal or formal tense where appropriate. ___ una cerveza, por favor … I want a beer please. ___ alquilar un coche, por favor … we want to rent a car please Yo ___ saber a qué hora el autobus sale para Madrid … I would like to know what time the bus leaves for Madrid. No ___ hacerlo … I did not wish to do it ___ ___ salir esta noche ... I have to go out tonight ¿Cuántos años ___ ella? ... how old is she? ¿___ un dolor de cabeza? … do you have a headache? ___ un buen viaje ... I had a good journey Estoy ___ con é l ahora ... I am speaking to him now ___ a ver a mi tía ayer ... we went to see my aunt yesterday ¿Quieres ___ conmigo? ... do you want to go with me? ___ a pagar con tarjeta ... I am going to pay by card ___ al cine esta noche ... we are going to the cinema tonight ¿Cuánto tiempo ___ _...

Grupo Básico Español – lección siete Buenos días señores y señoras. Bienvenidos a la lección siete de la clase de español. Vamos a aprender a decir la hora. Primero tenemos un video . Did you click on the video. Do that now, watch the video and then come back to this article. To ask the time: ¿Qué hora es? To ask at what time: ¿A qué hora? Note that tiempo is weather and time, but when asking the time, we use the form above ¿Qué hora es? – literally “what is the hour”. Always use hora when talking about specific times such as the time of the day, the time a train leaves or coffee time ( la hora del café ). Use tiempo when talking about time as an abstract concept – no tengo tiempo (I don't have time) or tienes tiempo para tomar tu té antes de ir a las tiendas . Here are some useful time-related words. Hoy – today . Hoy, es martes. Mañana – tomorrow . Mañana es miercoles. Pasado mañana – the day after tomorrow . Pasado mañana, es...

Here's another useful video from Ouino, the language company. click here

Next week, we will be telling the time in Spanish. Make sure you revise your numbers - and there are 60 minutes in an hour, so we need to be able to count to 60!

Grupo Básico Español – lección seis Buenos días señores y señoras. Bienvenidos a la lección seis de la clase de español. Espero que hayan disfrutado de encontrara Spot la semana pasada. Entonces, empecemos de nuevo. La semana pasada, nos hicimos muchas preguntas ¿Veremos algunas de las respuestas? Demonstration: Te presento a mi nuera, Lucía. Ella es de Ecuador y nació en Quito, la ciudad capital. Lucía está casada y su marido es mi hijo Tom. Ellos tienen dos hijos, Julia y Aureliano. Lucía estudia antropología en Cambridge y además, ha estudiado en Lima, Bruselas y LSE en Londres. Su padre y su madre son médicos en Ecuador. Ella tiene tres hermanas – Emilia, Arlen y Camilla. We are now on Sueños 3 We are still building on our Spanish conversation. We now want to be able to describe the place where we live. City – la ciudad Town – el pueblo Village – el pueblo o la aldea District or area (of a town or city) – el distrito, el barrio. ...

Verb of the week: hacer Hacer means 'to do' or 'to make' and it is one of the essential Spanish verbs to learn. It is used in many everyday situations, idiomatic expressions and also to discuss the weather! In English, we have two separate verbs for doing and making, but the Spanish make do with one. Here is the verb conjugated in present, past and future:                                         Present e                 Pret é rit o                 Futuro          yo                    ...

Our song this week is Guantanamera, a folk song from the island of Cuba. The title means a woman from Guantanamo, a place now notorious as an American prison. Guajira is Cuban slang for a woman from the country (a peasant woman) and is also a style of Cuban song. It is probably Cuba’s most famous song and has been recorded by many international artists including Joan Baez , José Feliciano , Wyclef Jean , Trini Lopez , Nana Mouskouri and Bobby Darin ; also by such groups as Los Lobos , and the Gipsy Kings . Our version is by Celia Cruz (pictured left), one of the most popular Latin American singers ever. The song has a background video of Cuban scenes and listed to her roll those Rs. Click here to see it. Guantanamera uses words from Cuban poet and independence fighter José   Martí, who was killed fighting against Spanish troops in the  Battle of Dos Ríos  on May 19, 1895 while trying to liberate Cuba from Spanish imperial power. It was radio host José Fernández ...

Here is a very good video, going over some of the things we have been learning in the past few weeks. https://youtu.be/DUBzm1ZgBcs

Verb of the week: ir Ir means 'to go' and it is one of the most useful verbs in Spanish. It can also be used as a simple way to form sentences in the future tense. In English, we tend to use the appropriate conjugation of the verb 'to be' (I am, he is, they are, you are) plus the gerund 'going'. Rarely do we say “I go to the shops”, we say “I am going to the shops”. In English, there are only two conjugations in the present tense:                  he/she/it goes              I/you/we/they go In the past tense, there is only one form of the verb: went Of course, in Spanish, there's a full set:                                       ...

Construcciones con "gustar" y verbos parecidos En estas oraciones, un elemento (el sujeto) produce una emoció n , sentimiento o reacción (por ejemplo, miedo, felicidad, aburrimiento...) en otra persona (el objeto indirecto). Ejemplo: A mí me encanta la música rock. (I like rock music. Literally: "Rock music pleases me.") -         La música rock : El sujeto - produce la emoción -         Me: El objeto/complemento indirecto - la persona que siente (recibe) la emoción -         Encanta: El verbo - expresa qué reacción o emoción siente el objeto indirecto. Cómo se forma? Presente  (yo) gusto (tú) gustas (él/ella/Ud.) gusta (nosotros) gustamos (vosotros) gustáis (ellos/ellas/Uds.) gustan La terminación del verbo tiene que coincidir con el sujeto (el elemento que causa la emoción). Esto quiere decir que si el sujeto es plu...